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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16

This volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography is the fourth of four for the period 1940-1980 and covers names Pik-Z. [Read More]

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  1. Steele, Sir Clive Selwyn (1892–1955) engineer and army officer
  2. Stedman, Ivan Cuthbert (1895–1979) swimmer
  3. Starr, Sir Kenneth William (1908–1976) surgeon
  4. Stapleton, James Lawrence (1904–1979) librarian
  5. Stanton, Byron Lionel (1891–1963) physician and pharmacist
  6. Stanley, Muriel Conomie (1918–1979) home missionary and nurse
  7. Squire, Norman Powell (1909–1974) billiard and snooker player
  8. Spowers, Ethel Louise (1890–1947) painter and printmaker
  9. Spowers, Allan (1892–1968) army officer and company director
  10. Spooner, Sir William Henry (1897–1966) accountant and politician
  11. Spivakovsky, Jascha (1896–1970) pianist
  12. Spicer, Sir John Armstrong (1899–1978) barrister, politician and judge
  13. Spencer, Gwendoline Gladys (Gwen) (1888–1974) journalist and managing editor
  14. Spencer, Frank Breese (1886–1965) company director
  15. Spence, Louis Thomas (1917–1950) air force officer
  16. Speckman, Carl Rudolph (1893–1958) army officer
  17. Sparkes, Sir Walter Beresford James Gordon (1889–1974) cattle breeder and politician
  18. Spargo, William Benjamin (Bill) (1888–1959) skier and prospector
  19. Spafford, Frederick Michael (1918–1943) air force officer
  20. Southee, Ethelbert Ambrook (1890–1968) college principal
  21. Solly, Robert Henry (1883–1968) architect, businessman and lord mayor
  22. Sodersten, Emil Lawrence (1899–1961) architect
  23. Snow, Charles Smethurst (1882–1953) Boy Scout commissioner
  24. Snider, Leon Samuel (1896–1965) theatre proprietor, entrepreneur and politician
  25. Snelling, Harold Alfred Rush (1904–1979) solicitor-general
  26. Sneddon, Andrew William (1880–1945) insurance manager
  27. Smorgon, Norman (1884–1956) businessman
  28. Smithers, Sir Arthur Tennyson (1894–1972) public servant
  29. Smith, Sir Tom Elder Barr (1904–1968) pastoralist and company director
  30. Smith, Sydney Talbot (1861–1948) solicitor, freelance journalist and civic worker
  31. Smith, Stanley Greig (1884–1970) charity organizer
  32. Smith, Roy Sharrington (1892–1971) architect
  33. Smith, Norman Walter (1915–1973) Australian Rules football coach
  34. Smith, Frank Beaumont (Beau) (1885–1950) producer, director and exhibitor of films
  35. Smith, Donald Ian (1892–1947) radiologist
  36. Smith, Christine Idris (1946–1979) skier and interior decorator
  37. Smith, Cecilia (1911–1980) matriarch and Aboriginal activist
  38. Smith, Arthur Sydney Victor (1893–1971) public servant and businessman
  39. Smith, Addie Viola (1893–1975) solicitor and trade commissioner
  40. Smerd, Stefan Friedrich (1916–1978) physicist
  41. Smart, Sir Eric Fleming (1911–1973) wheat-farmer and grazier
  42. Small, Sir Andrew Bruce (1895–1980) bicycle manufacturer, land developer and politician
  43. Slim, Sir William Joseph (1891–1970) army officer, governor-general and author
  44. Slessor, Kenneth Adolf (1901–1971) poet and journalist
  45. Sleigh, Sir Hamilton Morton Howard (1896–1979) company director
  46. Sleep, Alfred Reginald (1893–1959) home missionary and private detective
  47. Slater, William (Bill) (1890–1960) solicitor and politician
  48. Skipper, Herbert Stanley (1880–1962) solicitor and promoter of libraries
  49. Skinner, Rose (1900–1979) art-dealer
  50. Skene, Lillias Margaret (1867–1957) women's activist and welfare worker
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